With all its eyes the animal world
beholds the Open. … Free from death.
Only we see death; the free animal has its demise
perpetually behind it and before it always
God, and when it moves, it moves into eternity,
the way brooks and running springs move.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Eighth Duino Elegy
Photograph via The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Poem via Poemas del río Wang my new favorite blog. Highly recommend.
Thomas Eakins (1844 – 1916) was a renowned painter, sculptor, and photographer known for depicting his fellow Philadelphians.
This week, Dog Art Today will look at great works of dog art in the city of Philadelphia. For some reason, the city keeps popping up on my radar. Feel free to leave me any tips in the comments section.
P.S. You may remember The Artist’s Wife and his Setter Dog by Thomas Eakins, I featured last November. I think I like this painting of Elizabeth Crowell and her dog better. It’s the red.
Dallas Art News reports:
The Amon Carter Museum has been loaned two American masterpieces from the Metroploltian Museum of Art in New York. The paintings are The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog (1884-89) by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880) by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). The paintings will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum through January, 25, 2010.“Both
are intimate portraits of the artists’ loved ones, although the artists
approached their subjects quite differently,” says Rebecca Lawton,
curator of paintings and sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum. “Eakins
depicts his wife and setter Harry with an uncompromising realism, while
Cassatt portrays her ailing sister Lydia with the delicacy and
directness of the Impressionists’ brushstroke.”While these two paintings are in Fort Worth, the Carter has in return loaned two of its own masterpieces to the Met, Swimming (1895) by Thomas Eakins and Idle Hours
(ca. 1894) by William Merritt Chase. Both paintings are in the Met’s
exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915.The Amon Carter will host free gallery talks about the Eakins and Cassatt paintings on November 12 at 6 p.m.
Lovely.
